Dave Carolan

🙎🏼‍♀️@5Caravans 👨‍👨‍👧 Noah, Elliot & Martha 🇮🇪 30yrs working working in Elite Sport! 🎙️@BreakingLinesPo Views are My Own & Not necessarily of Clients

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

🚦2025 I started my @substack Posts...

📈2026 will bring even more insights, opinions, perspectives from ~30yrs in Pro & Elite Sport

21 Short Reads to date

Career guidance, technology, applied practice, memories etc

Interested? Link here 👉 https://t.co/Sk6r3aPuDE

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

Best decision I’ve made or will ever make!!!

Happy Anniversary @5Caravans

27yrs ago today we had the best day. And it’s been love every day since

Thanks for being my best friend 💚

And mother of our children too 😉

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

Always a great event.

Last years was class so get ahead and get it booked!!

If you’ve got CPD budget and want a MDT view it’s a great to hear from leaders in different domains

[Training Ground Guru @ground_guru]

Launch pricing for TGG Live 2026 closes TONIGHT. After today, the price goes up.

Here's who we've announced so far at Old Trafford, September 29-30 👇

🔗https://t.co/bXpUHI7pzI

[Jordi Garcia @jordigarciapf]

Thanks, Paul, Bram, Matt, Miguel Ángel, Ismael, José y Giampiero

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

First #pizza night of the year @ooni.uk oven still going strong in year 4 after a day of https://t.co/qaVlSVWvTz

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

@AmanSShergill #Proud 🙏

[Training Ground Guru @ground_guru]

TGG Live is the ONLY conference that brings the entire football backroom under one roof.

Because in modern football, success doesn’t come from isolated departments working harder - it comes from Sporting Directors, Recruitment, Analytics, Academies, Coaches and Performance teams working together.

That’s why TGG Live exists.

🗓️ September 29–30, 2026
🏟️Old Trafford, Manchester

Day 1⃣ focuses on Sporting Directors, Recruitment & Analytics.

Day 2⃣ dives into Academies, Coaching & Performance.

Across both days you’ll hear from elite practitioners and thinkers who are shaping the game right now.

New for 2026: Dedicated break-out sessions for each of the six key areas.

This is your chance to go deep on the topics that matter most to your role, share challenges with peers facing the same issues and leave with practical ideas you can actually implement.

Launch Pricing expires Friday 29 May.

Book now and you’ll:

▶️Guarantee your department is represented at the premier high-performance football event

▶️Lock in the best available rate

Secure your place before the price rises

👇

https://t.co/Enw9Dn3pNv

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

for my part, I abhor cheating of any nature (ask my wife who looked at my battleship positions last weekend!!)

Yet the contiuum of law/rule breaking from wearing white socks that clash with rivals to match-fixing means you cant look @ the whole bucket of cheating the same 4/n

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

Irrespective of whatever #Eckert knew regarding the @EFL Rules, all of us who have worked in English football know about spying rules

Its cheating of a specific nature

That many people in that organisation knew & said nothing, paints a poor picture of standards of behaviour 1/n

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

For those claiming its like a death sentence for stealing a mars bar, this false equivalence is terrible.

Being expelled for a shirt pull wold be a serious overreach

Expulsion for a season of deception to gain a sporting advantage over 'honest' competitors is appropriate. 3/n

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

What’ could you possibly shoot with an iPhone at a football pitch?” has been said a lot this week in football / soccer circles!

Mostly by people who dont understand technology

So here you have it… @MLS broadcasting a whole game produced with only @Apple iPhones

@ground_guru

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Apple TV just announced that (for the first time ever) this weekend's LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo match will be shot entirely on an iPhone 17 Pro.

Here's what the setup looked like last year when they began testing it during MLB games.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

A night of Saints as villains. And Villans as saints.

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

Interesting that the most expensive player in the @MLS at present is not potentially in the squad

Obviously only pundits opinion but, given that the injury to Agyemang was supposed to be the door for Sargent to go through, makes decision to leave @NorwichCityFC bizarre #ncfc

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

Who will the @USMNT take to the World Cup? 🇺🇸

@AleBedoya17 makes his 26-man roster prediction: https://t.co/josQgGYCsC

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

Who will the @USMNT take to the World Cup? 🇺🇸

@AleBedoya17 makes his 26-man roster prediction: https://t.co/josQgGYCsC

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

@michael_merrick “In an exclusive @michael_merrick said… “

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

Knock on effects from their behaviour (potential loss of revenue, forced player sales, losses on sponsorship & ticketing and costs for fans etc) are caused by their subterfuge

Their fans should be angry with them!

It’s arguable that a four point penalty is lenient for cheating

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

#Southampton haven't been fined any money;

they have been penalised 4pts as punishment in 1 competition & expelled from the other competition

where they broke the competition rules of both;

willingly, covertly, systemically.

No team has ever spied on another in the Playoffs

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

@sportingintel I suppose they have to plan for train travel back north for two teams, rather than just the one now! Logistics?

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

So it was systemic...

Amazing revelation

[EFL Communications @EFL_Comms]

An Independent Disciplinary Commission has today expelled Southampton from the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs after the Club admitted to multiple breaches of EFL Regulations related to the unauthorised filming of other Clubs’ training.

In addition, the Club has received a four-point deduction that will be applied to the 2026/27 Championship table.

The effect of today’s order is that Middlesbrough are reinstated into the 2026 Play-Offs and will proceed to the Play-Off Final against Hull City. The final remains scheduled for Saturday 23 May, with the kick-off time to be confirmed.

📘 https://t.co/kGIhl4GksL

[David Davis @Diggad1991]

Protecting Families On & Off The Pitch 🛡️